CHILDREN COMING HOME FOR PESACH Dear Vues Master, There’s a well-known Pesach joke about a man who calls his son that I’d like to share with your readers. It’s an…

THE UNACCEPTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF RECKLESS DRIVING Dear Vues Master, Everyone I know this past weekend was crying and deeply upset about the tragic accident that occurred this past Shab- bos…

DISCRIMINATION Dear Vues Master, I am deeply appalled and outraged by the recent incident involv- ing Yisroel Liebb on a United Airlines flight from Tulum to New York. The details…

FLIGHTS Dear Vues Master, United Airlines has resumed flights to Israel, becoming the first American airline to do so after suspending opera- tions due to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The airline…

BEST IGROS Dear Vues Master, Last week’s fun question in The Jewish Vues about your favorite Igros Moshe was a classic — absolutely fantas- tic. My rebbe brought it to…

UNMASKING HAMAS Dear Vues Master People are shocked and outraged at the horrific way Hamas returned the Bibas (not confirmed) & Lifshitz bodies, in locked coffins with no keys, sick…

SHAIMOS Dear Vues Master, Please be aware that in Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt”l’s article last week, titled “The Custom that Refused to Die” on page 74, there was a picture…

CARING Dear Vues Master, Last Motzei Shabbos, as the snow stopped falling close to midnight, I looked out my window and saw a “Malach” on my block. Lo and behold,…

EGG PRICES Dear Vues Master The price of eggs has skyrocketed lately, mainly due to the bird flu outbreak that has wiped out millions of chickens. The local groceries are…

WAR Dear Vues Master: Klal Yisrael is in the midst of fighting a very serious and challenging war. It is the Milchemes HaYetzer. We are all in turmoil over the…

NEW AIRLINE FLYING TO ERETZ YISRAEL Dear Vues Master It’s about time! Baruch Hashem, the airline Arkia announced tahis past Monday that it has launched a new flight route be-…

CARTER’S LEGACY Dear Vues Master I just read this in the National Review & I couldn’t agree more. Jimmy Carter’s true legacy is one of economic misery at home and…

FYI MESSAGE FROM R EFREM GOLDBERG Dear Vues Master: If you wouldn’t buy something at Trader Joe’s or anywhere without confirming the hechsher is recommended, don’t sign up for a…

MEAT DONUTS Dear Vues Why are they putting meat in donuts? YL Vues Master’s Notes: They put meat in challahs, so why not in donuts? GIFT Dear Vues Master: Should…

AMEN Dear Vues Master: I wanted to write about a phenomenon that I have witnessed for some time. Many people in shul an- swer with an Amen “chatuf” – a…

TEACHERS Dear Vues Master: There’s an issue that I don’t see published enough in the local papers. It’s the issue of teachers not being paid on time. As a teacher…

SMART PHONES IN YESHIVA Dear Vues Master, This took place in a well known top elementary yeshiva in Brooklyn. There was a third grade teacher who wanted to take a…

EL AL PRICE & PROFITS SOAR Dear Vues Master El Al, reported an all-time high in profits for the July-to-Sep- tember period, generating $1 billion in revenue. This surge was…

HUCKABEE CHANNELS GOLDA MEIR Dear Vues Master When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambas- sador-designate to Israel, appears at his Senate confirmation hearing, he’s sure to run into…

CHANGE AT THE NY TIMES Dear Vues Master: The New York Times has quietly corrected a false statement about “Israeli occupation” that it used repeatedly earlier this year. The change…

MAMA Dear Vues Master: This coming Tuesday is the yahrzeit of Rachel Imanu. Mama Rachel was the quintessential mother. Mama Rachel was the mother of all Jews. Her life was…

MUSIC Dear Vues Master: I love davening. I love davening over the yom tovim even more. I’m undecided as to whether I enjoy the concerts chazanim have been giving in…

YOM KIPPUR Dear Vues Master: I heard a super nice thought on Yom Kippur. My rabbi, Rabbi Rosner shared it. You see, on Yom Kippur, one of the most common…

OCTOBER 7 Dear Vues Master: Last year, October 7 joined the short list of those dates which will live in infamy and is thus being noted and commemorated by Jews…

LOSS OF RABBI ZUCKER Dear Vues Master: This past weekend we lost a Torah gem. My son was very close to the Rav & he will be missed by all…

KOCHI VEOTZEM YADI Dear Vues Master: To what degree should we acknowledge the efforts of the IDF and Mossad in the successful operation over the past few days? Obviously, we…

SHAIMOS Dear Vues Master: Please be aware that in Rabbi Efrem Goldbergs article called “Missing Apologies to the Hostages” it has Hashem’s name. Please tell your readers to take out…

TRAFFIC Dear Vues Master: The traffic is back!! The entire summer I was in Brooklyn & it was so easy to find a spot in Boro Park. This past weekend,…

DEATH OF HOSTAGES Dear Vues Master: Our hearts are shattered over Hamas’ cruel murders of the six hostages – Ori Danino, Carmel Gat, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alex Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and…

CAMP TIPS Dear Vues Master I can’t believe how much I had to spend this year on tips. I sent my 3 kids to different sleep away camps this summer….

A TIME FOR COMFORT? Dear Vues Master At the Democratic National Convention, we must hear strong support for Israel and the Jewish people from the nominee and the delegates. On…

TISHA B’AV Dear Vues Master: The following is an inspirational letter that Rabbi Heber sent his talmidim to help them have a proper perspective this past Tisha B’av. Rabbi Moshe…

ACCIDENTS Dear Vues Master: Klal Yisrael please listen. The amount of car accidents upstate this summer has increased drastically. Between people speeding and people not listening to the traffic laws…

THE FIFTEEN SECOND DRASHA Dear Vues Master Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein relates about the previous Bobover Rebbe, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, that he was a wellspring of sensitivity for all Jews, and…

VISITING DAY Dear Vues Master This past Sunday was the first major visiting day of summer 2024. I went upstate to visit my children in two different camps & I…

TRAFFIC Dear Vues Master Did everyone hit insane traffic this past Sunday night coming back from the Catskills? It took me over four hours to get back to Brooklyn &…

MEGA UPSTATE GROCERY STORES Dear Vues Master The fact that there are 15 mega groceries upstate this summer just for the 10 weeks of the summer astonishes me. These grocery…

THE LARGEST KOSHER PIZZA STORE IN THE WORLD Dear Vues Master Is it true that they are opening this week the largest kosher pizza store in the world in Monticello?…

TOO MUCH MILCHIGS Dear Vues Master Is it just me or am I the only one that doesn’t enjoy eating so much milchigs on Shavuos? My wife insists on making…

SHOMER YISHMAEL Dear Vues Master Everyone noticed that Schumer didn’t march this year at the Israeli Day Parade. He was booed at the Met Council breakfast before the parade. The…

DAIRY Dear Vues Master: I can’t stand eating milchigs. My wife makes every Shavuos 4 milchig meals. Baked Ziti, Penne ala vodka, eggplant parmesan, cheesecake and many other dairy dishes….

LAG BA’OMER ON A SUNDAY Dear Vues Master Lag Ba’Omer was beautiful this year. The weather was great & everywhere you went in heimish Brooklyn there was either a bonfire,…

HATZALTHON Dear Vues Master: Dear Friend, We are a group most comfortable operating behind the scenes, doing what we do, not stepping out into the limelight or writing letters. But…

HAMAS Dear Vues Master: Hamas is holding American hostages (likely in Rafah) and rather than telling Israel, do whatever it takes, we will give you whatever you need to get…

RABBI LIEFF INTERVIEW Dear Vues Master I just want you to know how much I enjoyed the article Ari Hirsch did on HaRav Moishe Tuvia Lieff shlita. We are very…

EARTHQUAKE MEMES Dear Vues Master I was amazed at how many memes reached my phone within the first hour of the earthquake this past Friday. Some of them were really…

SHABBOS LUNCH COMPANY Dear Vues Master If my shul on Shabbos morning ends at 11am & we invite company over for lunch, is it wrong to tell the company that…

THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN Dear Vues Master Please thank Councilwoman Inna Vernikov for her op-ed. So many people appreciate her efforts, even though they do so quietly. Chazak! PB Vues Master’s…

THREE SELF HATING JEWS Dear Vues Master: Isn’t it sad that 3 big people in the United States government are self hating Jews? Blinken, Schumer & Sanders are all openly…

CORRECTION VUES MASTER’S NOTE: WE WOULD LIKE TO SHOW APPRECIATION TO OUR ESTEEMED READERSHIP. THERE WAS A MISTAKE IN LAST WEEK’S KASHRUTH ARTICLE BY RABBI MOSHE ELEFANT ABOUT KOSHERING LIVER….

TURN OFF THE PHONES Dear Vues Master: So I’m davening Shacharis in my shteeble last week when it happened again. I was really getting into my Shemoneh Esrei with some…

FREE MEDICAL SCHOOL Dear Vues Master This past Monday, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx received a $1 billion donation from Dr. Ruth Gottesman, former professor and chair…

EMUNAH Dear Vues Master: There’s a famous vort from the Riminover, and he says that the Gemara in Shabbos tells us that at the end of our lives, we’re going…

BRACHA Dear Vues Master: Is there a bracha someone should say when they hear the good news about the 2 hostages being rescued? When can one say the bracha? If…

JV CHAYALIM LETTER CAMPAIGN Dear Vues Master My 3rd grade class two weeks ago wrote letters for the Chayalim in the Jewish Vues letter campaign. I just wanted to thank…

REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST Dear Vues Master This past Monday, we remembered the worst genocide the world has ever known; The Holocaust. We remember how a maniacal lunatic and his political…

PAIN Dear Vues Master: A good friend of mine unexpectedly lost his wife. A couple months later we were golfing together, chatting about nothing. He asked what my dinner plans…

SHTENDER Dear Vues Master: I want to bring attention to an issue that has been bothering me for a long time. I belong to a shul that is B’H busting…

HELPING THE GRIEVING Dear Vues Master: Yesterday, I returned from Eretz Yisroel, and on the way back, I sat next to a fellow. We nodded a few times as we…

TRIP TO ISRAEL Dear Vues Master: I heard over the weekend that someone asked Rav Hershel Schachter shlita whether they can use their maaser kesafim for a chizuk trip to…

CLARITY Dear Vues Master I think by now, most of the civilized world has figured it out. They see clearly who the forces of evil are and who the creators…

THE CHANUKAH GIFT Dear Vues Master I just read a great story by Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman that I wanted to share with your readers. It was a cool, crisp,…

SHOMRIM Dear Vues Master: I just wanted to give a big public THANK YOU to Bob Moskowitz & Tzvi Weil and the entire Flatbush Shomrim for all they do. The…

QUEENS HIGH SCHOOL KIDS Dear Vues Master Hundreds of “radicalized” kids rampaged through the halls of a Queens high school this week for nearly two hours after they discovered a…

CHANGE Dear Vues Master: I am sitting on a bus on the way to the rally in Washington & though the white hair on my head & face attest to…

ON US NOW Dear Vues Master The generational trauma we Jews obviously feel, growing up as children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, is unspoken and maybe even undiagnosed or unknown….

MI KAMCHA YISRAEL Dear Vues Master We have a family member who’s a combat medic in an infantry unit. He’s been on the border of/in Gaza for weeks now, without…

WHO GUARDS WHOM? Dear Vues Master: A teacher in a Chareidi school got a special call this week from an emotional woman who said she does not observe the Torah…

OUR PART Dear Vues Master: Last night I participated in a Tefillah/Chizuk gathering at my shul. One Rav offered the following message which resonated with me. He said that while…

DIFFICULT DAYS Dear Vues Master: We know that the Jewish people are in a very difficult situation. However, we can never despair or give up hope. As our enemies raise…

WORRY Dear Vues Master: My wife didn’t come to shul on Shemini Atzeret and I was in a big dilemma. Should I tell her the horrible news going on in…

KAPAROS WITH CHICKENS Dear Vues Master This past Thursday I went with my family to do Kaporos in the pouring rain. My family always enjoys this mitzvah. There was a…

DEDI Dear Vues Master: Last week was the passing of popular singer Dedi Graucher. He was always so alive and so energetic. When he came on stage, you knew you…

FLIGHT Dear Vues Master: L’Chaim Airlines announces boarding for flight 5784. Your luggage should contain only the best memories of 5783 The bad or sad moments should be deposited in…

YOMIM NORAIM SEATING REQUEST FORM Dear Vues Master A shul in my neighborhood sent this letter out to their kehillah around a month ago & I thought your readers would…

SIMCHAS Dear Vues Master: I hate to complain about going to simchas but am I the only one that can’t stand going to all these weekday weddings? Over this summer…

END OF SUMMER Dear Vues Master: I can’t believe the summer is over! It was an awesome summer all around in the Catskills. Things seemed to be back to normal…

TRUMP INDICTED AGAIN Dear Vues Master: Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia this past Monday, accused of scheming to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss in the…

40TH ANNIVERSARY Dear Vues Master: I know that this week’s edition is the 40th anniversary edition of the Country Vues. I just want to say a big thank you to…

MOTZEI SHABBOS NACHAMU CONCERTS Dear Vues Master It was amazing how so many Jewish music singers were in the Catskills this past Motzei Shabbos Nachamu at different colonies. I remember…

KOSHER MEAT PRICE SKYROCKETS Dear Vues Master As of this past Monday prices on kosher meat products have skyrocketed due to a “drastic” price hike by a large wholesaler. In…

MAJOR ISSUE AT GROCERIES THIS SUMMER Dear Vues Master Why are groceries & bakeries upstate not putting prices on the items they sell? This is becoming a new trend upstate…

SPECIAL ASKANIM Dear Vues Master: I just want to give Askanim Abe Rosenberg & Abe Rutner and all of his helpers a big yasher koach for the JCC of Sullivan…

PSA ANNOUNCEMENT Dear Vues Master: I was having a coffee in Dunkin Donuts upstate when a frum woman standing behind me was discussing which donut her daughter wanted. At this…

BEING A POSITIVE LIGHT TO OTHERS Dear Vues Master: Referring back to an article placed in the Jewish Vues dur- ing the winter vacation exodus to Florida, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg…

REBBE Dear Vues Master: It’s so sad that we lost another gadol last week. The Bostoner rebbe from Flatbush was loved by all. He was a tremendous talmud chacham &…

ELDER ABUSE Dear Vues Master: An elderly Jew was brought to the hospital for treat- ment of issues involving fainting, high blood pressure, and diabetes. During his examination, the doctor…

PARADE Dear Vues Master: This past Sunday I took my family for the first time to the Israeli Day Parade. Overall I thought it was really nice. It just bothered…

BDE RAV GERSHON EDELSTEIN ZT”L Dear Vues Master I feel bad for the students and followers of Rav Edel- stein זצ״ל and recognize the loss to the Jewish people today….

MDY Dear Vues Master Last Wednesday I went to the R’ Eli Steansky MDY live shiur in Boro Park. I was blown away at how nice it was. All different…

INFLATION Dear Vues Master: Inflation is crazy these days. I just went to get a haircut last week after Lag Baomer & my barber raised his price from $15 to…

LAG BAOMER Dear Vues Master I just wanted to say that I think that there were more Lag Baomer celebrations this year through- out Brooklyn than ever before! It seemed…

TRUE VALUE Dear Vues Master A little boy is going through the attic in his house and he finds a stone. The stone looks like a very valuable and rare…

CASINO Dear Vues Master: We do not need a casino in Coney Island. Gam- bling is a yetzer harah for many people. They built one upstate & there are tons…

MATH ERROR Dear Vues Master: I davened in a shteeble where I was the gabba. It was this past Friday night, one night after Pesach, the ninth day of the…

MATZOH Dear Vues Master: Looking towards Pesach, there has been persistent news of a Matzo shortage this year. One of the factors that caused this is the untimely closing of…

LESSON Dear Vues Master: R’ Shimshon Aharon Polansky, known as the Tep-liker Rav, was one of the geonei Yerushalayim,and the most accomplished talmidei chachamimin the city came to learn from…

PRICES Dear Vues Master: Why does everything go up in price right around Pesach? This year eggs are over $4 a dozen. Mat-zohs are over $50 a pound in some…

REMEMBERING RABBI WEINBERG ZT”L Dear Vues Master This past Monday morning Klal Yisrael lost an-other gem, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Meir Weinberg zt”l, a Magid Shiur at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas for…

REBBEIM SERVING TALMIDIM ALCOHOL Dear Vues Master My son went to a Purim party & was shocked to see his rebbie pouring his talmidim from high school al- cohol. It’s…

TORAH UMESORAH Dear Vues Master: Torah U’Mesorah has just released a letter outlining a plan to have yeshivos end their zmanim earlier in the summer and begin their new zman…

PESACH Dear Vues Master What should I do? My wife wants to go away for Pesach & we just can’t afford it. I understand that it’s a lot of work…

KVARIM Dear Vues Master: Am I the only one that’s bothered that when I go to daven at a matzevah everyone is facing the matze- vah. Shouldn’t we be davening…

VACATION Dear Vues Master: I can’t believe how many teachers & students, especially teachers, come back a few days after winter break. What type of example are these teachers? It’s…

CRY Dear Vues Master: As I cry for the 7 murdered in Nevei Yaakov, I think about the number 7. Shabbos when it happened is the seventh day. Our tears…

VACATION Dear Vues Master: I’m so glad that so many people are away this week. It feels like it’s summer time. I can find parking spots wherever I go &…

PSICHA Dear Vues Master: FULL DISCLOSURE: The following story is 100% true (except for some minor exaggerations, literary em- bellishments, and factual amplifications!) The P’sicha Fiasco Last week I was…

HASC CONCERT Dear Vues Master: Just came back from my first Camp HASC-”A Time for Music 36” Concert. It was fantastic! They did a really great job. I never heard…

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